Root AdAway installed but still getting adds

[julio99]

I am running Adblock Plus and AdAway together on my rooted Nexus 4 but the settings in Adaway confuse me a bit. By the way I'm running the 4.4.4 version. After I upgraded to 4.4 I run this app called "the Score". The opening page to the Score has these ads at the bottom like, sponsored by Bacardi and sponsored by Chilis. These ads were gone when I first installed Adaway. After the upgrade I get more on just this app the Score. You would think this app Adaway would be a no brainer to set but to tell you the truth I'm not really sure and would love some help sorting this problem out. Should I run these 2 ad killers together or just use one and which one? If it's AdAway what are the best settings?

 

[acejavelin]

I am running Adblock Plus and AdAway together on my rooted Nexus 4 but the settings in Adaway confuse me a bit. By the way I'm running the 4.4.4 version. After I upgraded to 4.4 I run this app called "the Score". The opening page to the Score has these ads at the bottom like, sponsored by Bacardi and sponsored by Chilis. These ads were gone when I first installed Adaway. After the upgrade I get more on just this app the Score. You would think this app Adaway would be a no brainer to set but to tell you the truth I'm not really sure and would love some help sorting this problem out. Should I run these 2 ad killers together or just use one and which one? If it's AdAway what are the best settings?

Adblockers, among other things, mess with the host file and other system level stuff, you should only run one, and make sure you uninstall the previous one first. If you have two running now, make sure to uninstall them in reverse order, newest one first to uninstall, then the oldest one, with root apps like this you should also reboot in between any install or removal.

Remember that some ads cannot be blocked depending on how they are implemented in the app, if they are built into the app and not using a standard ad service that most Play Store apps do

 

[julio99]

I do have both Adaway and Adblock Plus installed. Adaway has been there for awhile. You are saying I should un-install both of them? That would mean Adblock Plus first, it is the newest and reboot then uninstall Adaway, reboot and then re-install the one I want to keep? That is more less what I wanted to know. Which one of the 2 should I use? Adaway seemed to work well for awhile but do you have to reboot every time it updates the app? It has this setting in preferences to stop it from rebooting or asking so if it does that how do you know if it needs a reboot or not. This is where as I said it gets confusing. Is there not a solid app for a rooted nexus 4 that stops ads with set and forget settings?

 

[BRAINZ2013]

I don't know if they will work just get since 444 has just came out and no stable one yet .

 

[acejavelin]

I do have both Adaway and Adblock Plus installed. Adaway has been there for awhile. You are saying I should un-install both of them? That would mean Adblock Plus first, it is the newest and reboot then uninstall Adaway, reboot and then re-install the one I want to keep? That is more less what I wanted to know. Which one of the 2 should I use? Adaway seemed to work well for awhile but do you have to reboot every time it updates the app? It has this setting in preferences to stop it from rebooting or asking so if it does that how do you know if it needs a reboot or not. This is where as I said it gets confusing. Is there not a solid app for a rooted nexus 4 that stops ads with set and forget settings?

Yes, essentially uninstall both in reverse order and then install the one you want to keep.

Android has been getting more and more secure, so some of the things ad blockers did to stop ads in the past are not possible anymore due to the security built into Android, and it will just get "worse"... the best way to stop ads on your favorite apps is to support the developer and buy the paid version. You could look at third-party apps (ie. not from the Play Store) that allow editing of apps permissions, but be very careful as you can cause an app not to function, most of these are on the gray area of safe and legal, so direct discussion of them is forbidden here but Google can help if you want to go down that path, some type of "advanced permissions editor" might be what you need.

Remember that some developers embed ads into the code in non-standard ways, not directly using an ad service like AdMob or AdSense, so some ads in some apps cannot be stopped at all, no matter what you try to do.